Distorted . . .

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In the world
Which was much larger then
At least so it seemed
To me and my friends
We loved many things
Understood a small few
But we always relied
On the big people

Then time
Toil and trouble
Took their toll on our dreams
And little by little
We grew
As we learned more and more
Our perspectives had changed
And we wondered

The big people were good
They surrounded us daily
We believed that all big ones
Were worldly and wise
As our own wisdom flourished
We would slowly conclude
That good things don't come
Always with size


Distorted Image
©2019 Raymond M. Jozwiak




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Change. . .

. . . has either occurred in our inherent nature or the thinkers and philosophers of old were simply incorrect . . .


(from Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood)

". . . If only the natural tendencies of people to love and care for one another were allowed to flow freelh, unclogged by the artificial interference of government, particularly monarchical government, (Thomas) Paine and (Thomas) Jefferson both believed, society would prosper and hold itself together. . . This would occur because people were innately sociable; they possessed a social sense that naturally bound people together. . . As Jefferson said, "The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist, had he intended man for a social animal, without planting in him social dispositions.". . . "

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Clown? . . .

. . . mean girl? . . . or clueless? . . .


(from https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-trump-climate-change-20181127-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3f5plNFDsghxt0EKZky-e4Z9sE_BVbP_6ywYSK1WcZDXR0KdgqUxcp2tk)

". . . "One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we're not necessarily such believers," Trump said during a freewheeling 20-minute Oval Office interview with The Washington Post. . . Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, said . . . that the president's comments risk leaving the nation vulnerable to the ever-growing impacts of a warming planet. . . "Facts aren't something we need to believe to make them true - we treat them as optional at our peril," Hayhoe said. "And if we're the president of the United States, we do so at the peril of not just ourselves but the hundreds of millions of people we're responsible for.". . ."

(from https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/how-actual-smart-people-talk-about-themselves/549878/)

". . . Here are three traits . . . (of). . .  people who by any reckoning are very intelligent. They all know it. A lifetime of quietly comparing their ease in handling intellectual challenges—at the chess board, in the classroom, in the debating or writing arena—with the efforts of other people gave them the message. Virtually none of them (need to) say it. . . They know what they don’t know. . . the most consistent marker of real intelligence. . . generally the cliche is true: The clearest mark of intelligence, even “genius,” is awareness of one’s limits and ignorance. . . On the other hand, we have something known as the Dunning-Kruger effect: The more limited someone is in reality, the more talented the person imagines himself to be. Or, as David Dunning and Justin Kruger put it in the title of their original scientific-journal article, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.” . . . Odds are that the world’s most flamboyant illustration of this dangerous misperception, despite his claimed omniscience, would not even recognize the term, nor its ominous implications in his case. . ."

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Do You . . .

. . . know what you  like?

. . . Do you know what you want?
Do you highly value anything at all?
Do you live with other people
In this world of good and bad?
Did you notice that they're
Very much like you?

Do you try to understand
The things that someone else goes through?
Do you make an extra effort just to try?
Do you think that is could simply be
Exactly what we're all supposed to do?

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Rest . . .

Memories of places, people and things
Flow abundantly when you least require them
And most commonly when you're trying to sleep

Embarrassing, humiliating, unpleasant
Or simply unwanted adventures await
The unwitting and uncontrollable mind during slumber

The school bus is turning the corner
When you cannot find your pants
And breakfast is still on the table

What appears to be your childhood home
Becomes the setting for an episode
Of interpersonal intrigue

An adolescent infatuation
Comes irritatingly to somnambulant life
As you work from REM to delta to rejuvenate

The experience can leave one 'unrested',
To say the least, or even bring fatigue
To your 'rested' self with the morning light

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B.S. . .

. . . is what John Kelly called the story headlined, "Kelly thinks he's saving U.S. from disaster, calls Trump 'idiot,' say White House staffers". . .


(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/kelly-thinks-he-s-saving-u-s-disaster-calls-trump-n868961)
". . . "I spend more time with the president than anyone else and we have an incredibly candid and strong relationship," said Kelly in a statement. "He always knows where I stand and he and I both know this story is total BS. I am committed to the president, his agenda, and our country. This is another pathetic attempt to smear people close to President Trump and distract from the administration’s many successes.". . ."


As the story may be, so are the last three words of the quote from Kelly.

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Roads . . .

. . . more and less traveled . . .



People talk about all kinds of things
Like the weather
Like their politics
Like the things that they watch on TV
But still the roads diverge

Funny though all this chatter don't mean a thing
When compared with the wondering
When they speak of just how
The roads diverge

There comes a moment
You’re suddenly face with a choice
All that you thought that you
Knew becomes smoke
And all of your detailed and
Best laid-out plans
Have become just one
Great big joke

Some will cope
Some will agonize endlessly
Pleading take this away from me
This decision I face
When roads diverge


Less Traveled
based upon Roads Diverge ©2014 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Games . . .

. . . people play and the lengths to which they'll go . . .



(thanks to http://www.mikethetiger.com/index.php?display=mike_history and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Tiger and http://www.npr.org/2017/09/01/547270000/the-lsu-tigers-new-tiger-makes-his-debut)
Mike the Tiger is the official mascot of Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and serves as the graphic image of LSU sports. Mike is the name of both the live and costumed mascots. . .LSU's men's and women's sports teams are called the Fighting Tigers and Lady Tigers, respectively, and the university's football team plays its home games in Tiger Stadium. LSU first adopted its "Tigers" nickname in the fall of 1896. . . a reference to the state's Confederate heritage; the Louisiana troops of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia became known as the Tigers during the Civil War in recognition of the bravery of two New Orleans brigades, the Tiger Rifles and the Washington Artillery (whose logo featured a snarling tiger's head). . . In 1934, Athletic Director trainer Chellis Mike Chambers, Athletic Director T.P. Heard, swimming pool manager and intramural swimming coach William G. Hickey Higginbotham, and LSU law student Ed Laborde decided to bring a real tiger to LSU. They raised $750, collecting twenty-five cents from each student, and purchased a two-hundred-pound, one-year old tiger from the Little Rock Zoo. . ."

Much like Lassie and other animals-for-entertainment, several Mikes have held the title?/position? over the years with a new 11-month-old Siberian-Bengal mix officially replacing Mike VI late last month — just in time for the start of school and football season.

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Glitter . . .

. . . Many and new contemporaries and adults were introduced into my life with the addition of formal education to my daily routine. These new experiences did not so much teach me that everything and everyone on this earth were not always good, honest and sincere people, but it did confirm that. But I still managed to retain a certain optimism, in spite of it. Deep down, bullies who punched me in the stomach and ran (brave, huh?), nasty classmates who whispered and giggled to each other in my presence, the abrasive girl on the schoolbus that made fun of me, the guys that would never choose me to be on their team (I was NOT athletic) and the teachers who scolded the entire class for something obviously perpetrated by one misguided soul - could not dissuade me from the notion that the world was still a good place and that most people within it were still very much good. I firmly believed that.


All That Glitters
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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All ? . . .

. . . or just the ones YOU know?

It always amazes me when someone uses the word "all" in reference to a group of people, such as gender, religious, professional, age, race, national origin or anything else. The reason this began to trouble me many years ago was a conversation, of which I was a party, where someone made reference to men, a group to which I belong, and "how they are."  In fact, the attribute, characteristic, nature or other aspect of men to which this person referred was clearly not one that I shared and I was, quite honestly, anxious to inform the person of this. All of which, after some additional consideration, led me to the realization that although it comes quickly and frequently to the mind (and to the lips), the word "ALL" should be employed only with the utmost discretion, unless of course you are referring to a smaller, more manageable group than 'men', such as 'the three stooges', 'two of my friends' or maybe even 'a dozen eggs.'  Another recent conversation involved me where another man was considering that portion of the population to which I will refer to here as women, in a somewhat dismissive and disparaging way. More specifically, and also unfortunately, he cited as his evidence female members of his own immediate family. My efforts to diplomatically bring to his attention that female members of my family were in fact not so easily categorized, a fact that in utilizing logic, negated his entire premise. At this point, it appeared that he had finally gotten my proverbial 'drift.'  But then before parting he smirked and said, 'But you know they're ALL cut from the same cloth.'

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People . . .

. . . wanted something drastically different . . .

. . . NOW they got it!!

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Distance . . .

Do you hear that?
Hear what?
Sounds like a hammering or something . . .
. . . in the distance.
Like people working in the distance.
People working in the distance?
People don't work in the distance.
Why would you think people work in the distance.

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Slide . . .

(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/slippery_slope.html)
"Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die."
-Peter Singer

"When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace."
-John McCarthy

"There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders."
-Alan K. Simpson

"More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood."
-Henry Rollins

"Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons."
-Iain Banks A



Slip Down
©2016 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Sarcasm . . .

. . . can frequently say it BEST . . .

(from http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/bernie-sanders-is-the-worst-presidential-candidate.html)
". . . One thing you should never do is to vote for the candidate who represents what you want the country to become, in the hope that it’s the start of a process that leads to an America we can be proud of—one which protects and supports all its people. That would be exactly the kind of naive, starry-eyed mistake you and your stupid Sanders comrades are dumb enough to make. What you would do, if you had any brains, is to forget the big picture entirely, ask reductive questions like, “can Bernie Sanders immediately pass universal health care?” and, if the answer is no, throw your vote to whichever compromised puppet the establishment shoves down your throat. . ."

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Roads . . .

. . . diverge . . .



People talk about all kinds of things
Like the weather
Like their politics
Like the things that they watch on TV
But still the roads diverge

Funny though all this chatter don't mean a thing
When compared with the wondering
When they speak of just how
The roads diverge

There comes a moment
You’re suddenly face with a choice
All that you thought that you
Knew becomes smoke
And all of your detailed and
Best laid-out plans
Have become just one
Great big joke

Some will cope
Some will agonize endlessly
Pleading take this away from me
This decision I face
When roads diverge


Roads Diverge
Private performance of a newer composition, Roads Diverge © 2014 Raymond M. Jozwiak




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